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+Episode: 320
+Title: HPR0320: Audacious
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0320/hpr0320.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-07 16:14:29
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+Hi, my name is Gordon Syncler. My handle on the IRC is Thistleweb. In this episode
+of our Republic Radio, I'm going to do a lightweight application called Audacious.
+Now, for those that don't know about Audacious, it's a music player. If you have used Winamp
+or XMMS, it's along the same lines. I believe Audacious is a successor to XMMS.
+Certainly, the similarities with Winamp, it's more than just cosmetic. Each of these
+programs, they have three magnetic windows. They've got a little player window and they've
+got a playlist window and an EQ, an equalizer window, which are all independent. They can be
+toggled on and off. They're magnetic in the fact that you can move them so that they're
+lined up next to each other. When you move one of them, it moves the other one as
+well. They move together. It also remembers where it is on the screen as well, which is
+handy if you just want it away out the road, you know, out the way somewhere.
+There are other elements to make it similar to Winamp as well. You've got, for a
+start, the skins, there are something like five or maybe six skins that come with Audacious
+by default. That may vary depending on the distribution you use, I'm not sure. But the
+skins, that's not your only choice for skins. Winamp skins are compatible with Audacious.
+You can drop Winamp skins into the Audacious skins folder and they'll show up in the menu
+and the preferences to allow you to select them. Now, there are two different types of Winamp
+skins. There's modern and there's classic. I believe the classic ones work, but the modern
+ones don't. There are two different file formats as well. There's dot wall WAL
+and there's dot WSZ, I think. One of these is in modern skins and one of these is the
+classic skins. The reason I'm a bit vague on that is because I actually prefer the default
+1.3 classic skin that comes with Audacious. I've not used any of these extensions for quite a
+while. The other thing that makes it very similar to Winamp is the fact that you can have it
+as a system tree icon as well. You can minimize it to the system tree and control it
+from there. You know, a right click on that can then give your play, pause, whatever.
+Or you can have it set up to your keys to have a multimedia keys to play or pause when
+the phone goes. But these are done. In Winamp, they are done just by ticking an option in the
+preferences. In Audacious, you have to install the plugins to do that. Now, the plugins are,
+it's a single plugins file that's in the repos. I usually install them both at the same time.
+The player and the plugins, if you search for Audacious in your package manager, you should
+see both. That collection of plugins under one program should have status icon which gives
+you your icon in the system tree and allows you to right click and just open a file from there.
+It also gives you, you should have global hotkeys in there which lets you assign your play, pause,
+and your skip track, volume up, whatever, to keys on your keyboard. And then the one I use in addition to
+that is audio compressor which is sort of a, it can look forward a bit in the track and make sure
+that it's all more or less the same volume which is not very good for music but it's handy
+for podcasts and audio books which is the main reason that I use the main things I'll listen to
+which is why I have that particular one.
+So when, why would you want a small, a little lightweight player as opposed to one of the bigger ones?
+Well, for me, I've got an older computer so I need to count every megabyte.
+I don't want something that's going to take up for a 50, 60 meg just to just it one and get in my road.
+I don't need that, I don't want that. So I need something lightweight and resources.
+Now, the big dogs, the big programs like Exail and Banshee and Amarok and Rhythmbox, they're great
+but they've got far too much that I don't need. They're all tend to be multi-section windows
+or with different lists of different things and you know, built in pod catchers
+and built in connections to last FM and you know, any time you add a new album
+that wants to synchronize that and import into your library and have all these different playlists
+and I don't need all that. There's a lot of people who don't want all that complexity.
+So audacious fits the bill just very nicely in my opinion.
+If you have a lot of spare space, that's fine, you can go with whatever you want.
+If you're trying to, if you don't need all that complexity and you just want to throw a folder into the player
+and say it right, play, minimize it to the system tree and just do whatever you need to do.
+That way you're not, the sound's coming out, you've got control with the keyboard
+and it's not taking up any space on the panel.
+So that's audacious, basically. I mean, there's a lot more to it than that, but that's basically an intro to audacious.
+So if you've been looking for a little music player that will play in an older computer
+and doesn't take up much space, either in real estate and the screen or in resources to run,
+definitely check audacious out, you could do a lot of wash.
+So that's been another hacker-public radio and I'll call a data app.
+So my name is Gordon Sinclair. My handle on the IRC is Thistleweb.
+If you want to contact me via email, Thistle.webcast at googlemail.com.
+Until next time, goodbye.
+Thank you for listening to hacker-public radio.
+This VR is sponsored by Carol.net, so head on over to C-A-R-O dot N-E-T for all of her TV.